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Not4wood
January 27th, 2008, 12:22 AM
For those of you who are not familiar with the Darwin Awards:

Darwin Awards
The Darwin Awards salute the improvement of
the human genome by honoring those who
accidentally remove themselves from it...



For this years awards go here: http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/

The Honorable Mentions are those who try real hard to make the list by doing something so Stupid they are actually getting there names in the History Books, but fail and live thru it.
I have had an actual discussion (not an argument), but I couldn't get this woman to see the humor in someone doing something so stupid that they die in the process making it funny or sometimes to just make you shake your head in wonder.

I will post one story to get you interested: One fast note: I do love them Lawyer Jokes Hehe

http://darwinawards.com/i/bubbles2b.gifLawyer Alofthttp://darwinawards.com/i/bubbles1c.gif
1996 Darwin Award Nominee
Confirmed True by Darwin

http://darwinawards.com/i/art/zeebarf/lawyers.mini.jpg (http://darwinawards.com/art/zeebarf/)(1996, Toronto) Police said a lawyer demonstrating the safety of windows in a downtown Toronto skyscraper crashed through a pane of glass with his shoulder and plunged twenty-four floors to his death. A police spokesman said Garry, thirty-nine, fell into the courtyard of the Toronto Dominion Bank Tower as he was explaining the strength of the building's windows to visiting law students. Garry had previously conducted the demonstration of window strength without mishap, according to police reports. The managing partner of the law firm that employed the deceased told the Toronto Sun newspaper that Garry was "one of the best and brightest" members of the two-hundred-man association.

efarnstrom
January 27th, 2008, 05:12 PM
What a link! My brother will love it!!

Joe M
January 28th, 2008, 08:22 AM
I love strange finds like this.

Thanks for posting it.

vawitt
January 28th, 2008, 09:27 AM
My first exposure to these was a morning talk-show host on the radio recouting the story of Lawnchair Larry. I was laughing so hard I had to pull off the road. Really!!

http://darwinawards.com/stupid/stupid1998-11.html

Have a chuckle!!

~Val in cloudy IL

Not4wood
January 29th, 2008, 07:16 AM
I've been watching the Darwin Awards for a couple of years already. Usually somewhere by the end of January, the new Awards come out.

There were no signs of it, so I did a search and found them. Glad you all enjoyed it.......